Photo by Bobby Gavin
From Peter Jardine in Loughborough
(Please note: report subject to corrections, additions and further photographs in due course (at some stage through Monday). Itis not intended to mention every performance. Thanks for your patience.
Scottish athletes delivered three event victories and some close seconds at the Loughborough International.
And signs for the future looked good via an excellent sprint relay performance by our U20 Women as they delivered a new best time for a quartet in that age group.
Steven Bryce, Nick Percy and Sarah Calvert came up with the event wins while the likes of Alyson Bell was second in her two match races and Kirsty Law was second, too. Andrew McGill was within a tenth of a second of giving Scotland a mile victory double.
Steven kicked things off in terms of event wins – with another success in this event in the Para 1500m match race.
The Scot made it four-in-a-row at the Loughborough International in this particular event. Steven was delighted to clock 4:00.82 to see off all challenges and win here once again.
Nick is a regular winner here and there was no change to that status as he, too, gave Scotland full points. The Olympian won the Men’s discus with 61.75m.
Sarah produced arguably the best win of her career to seal the deal in the Women’s mile.
The field included Olympian Jessica Warner-Judd but Sarah found a superb kick over the last 300m after slipping to fourth place just after the bell.
‘I was a little worried but I had been leading earlier when I didn’t really want to,’ said Sarah.
‘I won the BUCS outdoors a couple of weeks ago so it is nice to add another victory and for Scotland at Loughborough. I just want to keep fit and avoid injury and see what happens – but that today was very enjoyable.’
Moments later Andrew McGill was within a few hundredths of a second of adding another mile success but had to settle for second in 4:07.21. Sarah had won in 4:45.51.
One of the best Scottish performances came from our Women’s development team who set a new Scottish U20 best in the 4x100m.
It was a fine team effort by Kishi Aremu, Sophie Thomas, Emma Clark and Holly Whittaker to better the previous Record.
GB international Alyson Bell had been named as our team captain the night before the event.
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